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Yesterday, Facebook announced in a press release that they intend to acquire mobile messaging company WhatsApp for approximately $19 Billion, $4 Billion of which will be in straight cash and the rest in Facebook shares. “WhatsApp is on a path to c...

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Now it's buying his company for $19 billion
Four years ago, Brian Acton—who is now selling his company WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion—was looking for a job after 11 years at Yahoo. Here are a few of his Tweets from that job hunt, as noted...

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WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum isn't what you'd call a bragger, but he has plenty to boast about. In just five years, Koum and WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton have created one of the world's largest messaging apps -- an app that Facebook jus...

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"Focus on simplicity, listen to your customers and iterate if you fail."
(Jan Koum said in an interview to The Recapp)
ith Facebook acquiring WhatsApp, its co-founders - Jan Koum and Brian Acton - have become billionaires and stars of techno...

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Koum was raised in Ukraine, immigrating in the early 1990s to the United States when he was a teenager. Living on welfare and food stamps, telephone calls back home to Ukraine proved to be a daunting expense. Eventually, Skype -- now owned by -- c...

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What happens when you sell your company to Facebook for $19 billion? "You're just numb and trying to grasp it all," WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton says of the megadeal that will likely make him a billionaire several times over. "It's going to cha...

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The American Dream is alive and well.
Facebook’s recent announcement that it would buy messaging app WhatsApp for a staggering $19 billion minted new billionaires, including cofounder and CEO Jan Koum who was once dirt poor. Koum’s family immig...

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Facebook made a startling admission in its earnings announcement this month: it was seeing a "decrease in daily users, specifically among teens". In other words, teenagers are still on Facebook; they're just not using it as much as they did. It wa...

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In Spain there are 20 million WhatsApp users. And in the whole world the number of WhatsApp customers amounts to over 300 million; they use it several times a day to send messages, photographs, videos and voice recordings. According to the informa...

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WhatsApp allows users to send unlimited videos, images, texts and audio messages to other WhatsApp users for free for a year. After the first year of use, it charges. $0.99. WhatsApp has been around for five years and has 450 million users. It is ...

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Like many parents, Facebook is learning that raising teenagers is hard. On Wednesday evening during its 2013 fourth quarter earnings call Facebook's Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman said teen usage of the social network decreased in the last...